Barnes & Noble: On BN.com, eBooks outsell print books 3:1

During its earnings call on Tuesday, Barnes & Noble’s chief executive officer William Lynch discussed several figures related to book sales — the most interesting of which is that eBooks are flying off the digital shelves. “We now sell three times as many digital books as all formats of physical books combined on BN.com,” Lynch said during the call, noting that the Barnes & Noble NOOK’s market share has increased slightly to 27%, up from 25% last quarter. Similarly, the firm’s NOOK business saw nearly 300% growth over the same quarter last year. Brick and mortar store sales were down 3% for the quarter. We can’t say we’re that surprised by the figures, after all, the new NOOK convinced us to switch to eBooks.

What are you talking about? B&N is the largest bricks and mortar book retailer in America. If you read the little paragraph at the top of this page, it will be revealed to you that physical book sales volume is only down 3% and their ebooks are up 300%. Don’t need an MBA to figure out that this is fantastic sales growth.

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What are you talking about? B&N is the largest bricks and mortar book retailer in America. If you read the little paragraph at the top of this page, it will be revealed to you that physical book sales volume is only down 3% and their ebooks are up 300%. Don’t need an MBA to figure out that this is fantastic sales growth.

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Its kind of sad, 75 years from now people wont be able to buy those cool old books from the mom and pop vintage stores.

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But how many people actually read all of the ebooks they buy? I’m sure many people buy a lot of ebooks because they’re easier to get than a physically book but never read them